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'HUGH THOMAS AND ROBERT WALLACE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 92,400, dated Jttly 6, 1869.

IMPRovED CLOTHES-RACK.

The Schedule referred to 'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'indy concern:

Be it known that we, HUGH THOMAS and ROBERT WALLACE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Racks for Suspending Clothing and other articles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and in whichl Figure l represents a front view, and v Figure 2, a plan view of a rack, constructed accord-A Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of this invention is to provide for the suspending oi' clothing and other articles, in apartments where the defacement of the walls by the driving of j nails, or screwing in of hooks, is inadmissible.

It is designed to be used in the recesses formed in a room by the projection of two parallel surfaces, such as are formed between the projecting sides of the chimney and the opposite walls, or between the projecting casings of two adjacent windows, or the open space of a window, 86e.

It consists of a .rack formedof a strip of timber, or other material, provided with the requisite hooks, and having its end or ends made adjustable, whereby the same, by heilig shortened, maybe easily adjusted to its place, and afterwards, by being lengthened, may he so jammed therein as to be irmly secured, without heilig nailed.

It also consists in a novel construction of its 'extrernities, whereby an inward, instead of an outward bowing ot' the apparatus is insured, when sui`n`oient jamming is necessary for sustaining the rack, as will -cause the bowing of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings- A is a strip of wood, or other material, of a length approximatingv the breadth ofthe recess it is designed to occupy, and supplied with any desirable number of hooks, a l).

B is a metal socket, screwed, or otherwise secured to the strip A, near one end, and containing a sliding bolt or bar, C.

Upon the outer end 'of this bar O is carried an end or face-plate, D, made adjustable bythe backward or forward sliding of the bar O, and which, furthermore, is, or may be pivoted thereto at j, for better conforming to uneven surfaces against which it may be brought.

The sliding-bar O is operated by a stationary screw, E,'h. ving its head pierced with radial holes or sockets @for reception ot' an attachable and removable arm, G, so that the turning of the screw will cause, by the outward or inward sliding of the bar, the lengthening or shortening ofthe apparatus.-

The ends or face-pieces D D, at the ends of the strip A, are made to projectoutwardly, so as, by locating the strain at points outside or in front of the centre line of the strip, to insure against the outward bowing of said strip during the wedging or jamming operation, while its inward bowing is prevented by the surface of the wall against which itis placed. Said ends D D may be armed with small penetrating points s, or faced with India rubber, to prevent slipping.

`What we claim as our invention, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-rack, consisting of a strip, A, carrying hooks a, and having outwardly-projecting ends D D', one or both of which is made adjustable in direction of the length of said strip, substantially as and for th purposespecited. i

HUGH THOMAS. ROBERT WALLACE. Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNES, J. W. OooMBs. 

